We are getting more and more ready for these babies each day! I kept feeling like things were just so far away and now it is starting to feel soon. Hopefully not too soon, but like 9 or 10 weeks soon! I mean 9 or 10 weeks!? Crazy!? We have been waiting for Jane for over a year and had been waiting to get pregnant for much longer than that. The fact that we are talking in a matter if weeks is just insane to me!! It's really just nuts!
My belly is very alive with babies! I see them moving all day every day and I love it! It is just the best thing ever!! The moving belly is the thing I will miss the most! I love having them with me every day. However, I'm very ready for Dad to meet his little girls and will be more than ready to welcome them to the outside world!!
I'm having my church baby shower next weekend and I am so excited! Like, really excited!! After that we can start really getting their little room ready. I also registered for a nursing class at the hospital (a fellow twin mom friend strongly recommended wrapping my mind around nursing BEFORE they arrive) and I am going to call and schedule our tour of the hospital. I dont totally see the point of that but why not right? Exciting times!! For now we are just doing random things at the house each weekend that need to be done like fixing broken light fixtures and organizing closets and stuff. I am definitely not moving very, ummm, gracefully these days so I have been trying to get things out of the way before I am carrying around 10+ pounds of baby!
A friend of mine the other day said she was thinking of me and how lucky I am that I am going to have TWO new babies looking up at me at the hospital. I have been thinking the same exact thing! The HUGENESS (is that a word) of this blessing is hard to even comprehend!! I really can't wait to see those two little faces looking up at me! :) I feel very blessed.
Ok off to start my weekend of relaxing with a little organizing thrown in there. I hope everyone has a great weekend too!!
Friday, February 15, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
26 1/2 weeks pregnant with the girls (long post warning)
I do fear that things are about to get a bit difficult. Pregnancy is starting to be really hard on my body. I am working about 4 hours a day, sometimes more, sometimes less and it is hard. My feet hurt so bad and I have reached a point of swelling that never goes away. It just fluctuates from scary looking to regular swollen looking! I have found that standing for long periods of time really hurts my feet. I have also developed some serious pain in the joints in my hands and when I wake up I usually have to run both hands under cold water for a while to get my fingers moving. It is related to fluid on the nerves in my wrists and I will be ready to get rid of that once these little munchkins are born!
Sleeping has gotten pretty hard too. Turning from side to side each night is hard. My belly feels so heavy! I usually wake up about 3 hours after going to bed with such awful heartburn that I usually switch over to the couch to finish up the night. Lance and I call it the "heartburn alarm". The heartburn has gotten better though. For a while anytime I would lay down after eating I would almost instantly throw up and would have to literally sit up for hours waiting to be able to lay down without getting sick. That seems to be subsiding a bit. Yay!
I have also seemed to get past my migraines!!! I am so thankful and praising God for this!! I feel like I have had some serious symptoms but I am thankful God has allowed them to be spread out! It has been hitting in waves and not all at once.
I noticed one tiny stretch mark and am waiting to wake up one day and see like a million. However, Iam super swollen, have already gained over 30 pounds and I have come to the conclusion that this is an unstoppable force that I can't control so I'm just going with it! Lance and I spend a lot of time laughing at my sausage feet/ankles, our living room turned bedroom and my ever changing belly. Which consists of the remains of a belly button piercing that is staring to look a bit scary!
For the most part I hear from people how small I look for twins. It's funny because I feel HUGE and am measuring much bigger than 26 weeks! I know one day I am just going to pop out to an enormous size! :) We had our monthly visit with the specialist and Nora was weighing in at 2.3 pounds and Zoe was 2.1 pounds. She laughed, said they were big babies and then looked at me and said, "well, your long waisted hopefully that will help." The tech said they were growing like singletons and were in the 55% and 70% for size. Little Zoe seems to be pretty average size all around and her sister seems to be a little chunker! It was funny to watch the measurements and see the gestational age creep up to 29 weeks at 26 weeks pregnant! It kind of scares me that I will be carrying around lots of baby soon, but I am also very very thankful they are both growing well!!
One of the best parts has been watching Lance morph into this girl daddy! He is soooo happy we are having girls. He used to say he wanted a son and is now 100% on the girl train. He stops me in stores to point out clothes and will just randomly tell me how happy he is that these babies are girls. The other night we were laying in bed and he just started telling me how happy he is that our babies are girls. I mentioned to him that I would be willing to talk/pray about changing our gender preference for our adoption if he wanted to and he would have none of that! He quickly said no and that Jane was our daughter. Don't try to take away Lances baby girls!! ;) It's been quite the experience so far, but such a miracle!! We are getting sooooo excited and cannot believe these little girls will be here so soon! We have so much to be thankful for. It's still very surreal. I will update with pictures soon. I dropped my phone in the toilet, not even my own toiler...yuck...and it is currently buried in a bowl of rice. We are crossing our fingers it dries out! But until then, no pics. Happy weekend friends!!
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Jane Jordan
I thought I should give a much needed update on our little Jane. So here it is! :)
We are now #5 on the waiting list. This is just crazy to me and stirs up a lot of emotions. It is so exciting that we are moving quickly now. However, not much has changed on how long we will be waiting for her. As I have said before, we will likely be getting close to #1 by the time Zoe and Nora are born. Our agency likes there to be about a 6 month age gap between biological kids and adopted ones. So, we could accept a referral at just about anytime after our other girls are born depending on the age ranges, etc.
All that said, we don't know when we will be ready to accept a referral. Once you are matched with a baby it is about a 6 month process (in a good scenario) to be home with your child due to all the legal stuff and travel. Will we be ready to accept a referral when the girls are 3 months old since it will still be another 6 months until Jane will be home? I don't know than answer to that yet. I believe we will have them all home by the twins first birthday. I have thought that for a whole now. But I just don't know. It could be sooner or it could be later. We are going to see how we feel and how things are going before we make those choices. But there is no question as to whether or not we are still adopting her!!
It is a little sad in a way that we have come so close and it is now seeming like we are far again. However, I think it is going to be here before we know it!
We know so many people have been on this journey and supported us in soooo many ways and I want you to know we are still so thankful and this adoption is still a huge priority to us! Little Jane is our daughter just as much as the other girls and we are just as excited to meet her and become her mommy and daddy!!
We will keep you posted throughout the months and can't wait to see how it plays out!!! But God is in control and has been this whole time so we know this plan is perfect! Yay for more babies girls than we ever thought possible!!
We are now #5 on the waiting list. This is just crazy to me and stirs up a lot of emotions. It is so exciting that we are moving quickly now. However, not much has changed on how long we will be waiting for her. As I have said before, we will likely be getting close to #1 by the time Zoe and Nora are born. Our agency likes there to be about a 6 month age gap between biological kids and adopted ones. So, we could accept a referral at just about anytime after our other girls are born depending on the age ranges, etc.
All that said, we don't know when we will be ready to accept a referral. Once you are matched with a baby it is about a 6 month process (in a good scenario) to be home with your child due to all the legal stuff and travel. Will we be ready to accept a referral when the girls are 3 months old since it will still be another 6 months until Jane will be home? I don't know than answer to that yet. I believe we will have them all home by the twins first birthday. I have thought that for a whole now. But I just don't know. It could be sooner or it could be later. We are going to see how we feel and how things are going before we make those choices. But there is no question as to whether or not we are still adopting her!!
It is a little sad in a way that we have come so close and it is now seeming like we are far again. However, I think it is going to be here before we know it!
We know so many people have been on this journey and supported us in soooo many ways and I want you to know we are still so thankful and this adoption is still a huge priority to us! Little Jane is our daughter just as much as the other girls and we are just as excited to meet her and become her mommy and daddy!!
We will keep you posted throughout the months and can't wait to see how it plays out!!! But God is in control and has been this whole time so we know this plan is perfect! Yay for more babies girls than we ever thought possible!!
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